Secondhand Poetry & Literary Criticism Bargain Book Box SP2981

Secondhand Poetry & Literary Criticism Bargain Book Box SP2981

Eighteen books of poetry, criticism, and biography — Emily Dickinson, W.B. Yeats, W.H. Auden, Robert Frost, Wordsworth, Samuel Beckett, the Penguin Book of Australian Verse, and more. A serious collection for readers who want poetry to think with.

1. English Poetry: A Critical Introduction — F.W. Bateson — Bateson's foundational guide to reading English poetry historically and critically. A standard reference for students of literature.
2. Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám of Naishapur — FitzGerald's Victorian translation of the Persian poet: the verses on wine, roses, and the brevity of life that became one of the most quoted poems in English.
3. Stratford-upon-Avon Studies II: Metaphysical Poetry — Essays on Donne, Herbert, and Marvell from the leading Shakespeare Institute conference series.
4. Samuel Beckett: A Critical Study — Hugh Kenner — Kenner's piercing examination of Beckett's plays and novels: the radical stripping away of language that made him one of the defining writers of the century.
5. Christopher Smart — selected by Marcus Walsh — Poems from the eighteenth-century visionary best known for the ecstatic "Jubilate Agno" and the celebration of his cat Jeoffry.
6. Emily Dickinson — Laurel Poetry Series — Selected poems from the poet who wrote nearly 1,800 poems in private and changed American literature.
7. W.B. Yeats — Joseph Hone (Pelican Biography) — The authoritative biography: his occultism, his politics, his loves, and the long development of one of the greatest bodies of poetry in the language.
8. William Wordsworth: The Prelude — Wordsworth's autobiographical poem: the growth of a poet's mind, from childhood on the Cumbrian fells to his experience of the French Revolution.
9. Cotton — selected by Geoffrey Grigson (Poet to Poet series) — Grigson's selection from the seventeenth-century poet Charles Cotton, best known for his continuation of Walton's Compleat Angler.
10. W.H. Auden — selected by the author (Penguin Poets) — Auden's own selection of his poems: "Musée des Beaux Arts," "In Memory of W.B. Yeats," "The Unknown Citizen," and others.
11. Robert Frost: Selected Poems — edited by Ian Hamilton — "The Road Not Taken," "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," "Mending Wall," and the rest of Frost's essential work.
12. Cambridge Book of English Verse 1900–1939 — ed. Allen Freer & John Andrew — A survey of English poetry in the first four decades of the twentieth century: Hardy, Housman, Owen, Eliot, and their contemporaries.
13. Classical Epigrams: Love and Wit — Studio Vista Pocket Poets — Greek and Latin epigrams in translation: the compressed wit of Martial, Catullus, and the Palatine Anthology.
14. Samuel Beckett: The Expelled and Other Novellas — Penguin Modern Classics edition of four Beckett novellas: "The Expelled," "The Calmative," "The End," and "First Love."
15. Longer Contemporary Poems — Penguin anthology featuring Auden, Patrick Kavanagh, Hugh MacDiarmid, W.S. Graham, George Barker, Peter Levi, Andrew Young, Vernon Watkins, and others.
16. The Penguin Book of Australian Verse — ed. Harry Heseltine — The standard anthology of Australian poetry from colonial ballads to the mid-twentieth century.
17. The Penguin Book of Eighteenth-Century English Verse — ed. Dennis Davison — Poetry in the age of Pope, Swift, Gray, Cowper, Blake, and Burns.
18. Selected Poems — John Gay (Grey Walls Press) — Selected poems from the author of The Beggar's Opera: the Fables, the town eclogues, and the social wit of early eighteenth-century London.